#ep81

So, the definitive best thing about the Gajeel anime addition is Edolas Gajeel. He’s just a goofy little weirdo that’s so different, yet so similar. 

Earthland Gajeel is spylike and agent-esque, and he’s willing to get his hands dirty if it’s for the greater good of the situation. He’s capable of doing side missions like these, he’s reliable, albeit sketchy and people find him untrustworthy because of how skeevy he acts and looks. 

It’s perfect that his equivalent is a freelance journalist, writing about the truth in a world full of deep-seated corruption. 

I really like the way they click. Everything from the intonation of their voices, the formality in their speech, the way they dress, the way they sit, their hair, it’s all polar opposites. 

And yet, Gajeel has never been so open and amicable to anyone in a first conversation before. He instantly knows they’re both individuals in a world, working in a field where they’re inevitably making tons of enemies on a fairly lonely road. 

They know, despite their differences, that they can understand each other in a way the people of the world just can’t. 

Also they are both absolute dorks.

Anime & manga

[Scanlan trying Suude] Matt: “It buuuuurns. Oh man, does it burn! It burns a lot, and you’re like... aargh.” Scanlan: “No effect?” Matt: “It burns. That’s an effect.” Scanlan: “Okay. I take out the flute [that was given to call J’Mon to aid in battle]. I pack some in the front of it.” Matt: “This is how you treat relics that were gifted to you by the leader of a foreign nation by turning the expended energy into a makeshift pipe.” Scanlan: “I’m taking another third and I’m packing it in the front of the flute. I will dip a torch into a bit of lava to light it. And I’m going to bong rip from this ancient brass flute.”

Travis: “Raise your hand if you have less than 30 hit points.” Vax, Vex, Scanlan and Keyleth hold up their hands. Kerr [realising]: “I could probably take out the whole group.”

[As the team scried on Raishan and saw that she was just frantically browsing through some books] Sam: “She was looking for the third book of the trilogy of Patrick Rothfuss–”